Wednesday, April 25, 2007

In the Goldilocks Zone


After years of searching, astronomers have finally located a planet within a space they call "the Goldilocks zone" -- neither too close to a star where any possible life as we know it would be cooked, nor so far away that there is insufficient light and heat to support life. In other words, not too cold, not too hot, but juuussst right.

On this planet, however, because it orbits much closer to a much cooler sun, 13-day years mean I'd be almost 1,400 years old there. On the bright side, imagine how much in Social Security benefits I would have collected by now!

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